Comments on: Senator John Thune: Obama seeks to spark ‘class warfare’ with populist rhetoric

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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:08:24 +0000

[...] John Thune, South Dakota Republican, has introduced legislation to end TARP and put the $320 billion toward immediate debt reduction. The bill attracted 13 Democratic votes in [...]

By: Republicans fear Obama’s loan program uses TARP program as ‘piggy bank’ | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:57:43 +0000

[...] John Thune, South Dakota Republican, has introduced legislation to end TARP and put the $320 billion toward immediate debt reduction. The bill attracted 13 Democratic votes in [...]

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Tribal Corporatism | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:37:44 +0000

[...] Responding to President Obama’s proposed banking reforms, Thune accused Democrats of inciting “class warfare.” That Thune disagrees with the president’s prescription for financial reform is no great [...]

By: rebekahhuang

rebekahhuang — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:14:41 +0000

not only do i love your dog but your thinking.
anything you blame bush for you must also blame the democratic majority for and that dates back to 2006.
the only jobs obama gets credit for are new union only construction and increased government jobs.

By: rebekahhuang

rebekahhuang — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:32:56 +0000

Hopefully there will always be a populist movement in this the United States of America!

By: slightlyaboveaverage

slightlyaboveaverage — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:27:08 +0000

The news each day allows us to equate the two.
You do know how to look at unemployment numbers, yes?
And as far as the ‘short-term memory’ you seem to find problematic, I can remember as far back as the 2006 mid-term elections when the Democrats got their majorities in congress.

By: shoabear

shoabear — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:02:52 +0000

LOL!

O what a short term memory people have, which allows you, campbell62 to equate Obama with job loss.

By: gedouglas

gedouglas — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:10:16 +0000

Because the progressive’s (statist, leftist, collectivist, marxist or whatever term you choose to apply to a proven failed ideology) currently in charge of our government believe the needs of those who are irresponsible outweigh your needs as a responsible citizen and the only solution to correct this is to take your hard earned dollar and give it to them because they ‘need’ it….and ‘deserve’ it because they ‘need’ it. Need is the only qualifier. And, on top of that ‘Citizen’ you are morally deficient to think otherwise.

By: shoabear

shoabear — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:47:29 +0000

points well taken lamecherry.

However, your the first person I have ever heard to spout the “merits” of Lee Atwater. Do you know who he was even? You comments lead me to suspect that you don’t.

Lee Atwater didn’t “expose” anything or anybody, he merely perfected the ad hominem attack and used that to get votes. He ruined people’s lives this way. In fact, he felt so bad about it, on his deathbed he is said to have apologized for all he had done.

Rove was his toadie and still stinks of Atwater politics today.

I hear you other statements loud and clear, I don’t agree but I’m not gonna step on your words. But you are gravely misinformed about Atwater.

By: thebigodoopedu2

thebigodoopedu2 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:10:35 +0000

Does your tin foil hat get in the way when you sleep?, or is it just when your in a public forum?

By: GOP Criticizes Obama Plan Because It Would ‘Confine The Banks And Their Ability To Make Profits’

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:53:16 +0000

[...] SEN. JOHN THUNE (R-SD): They think if they can create enough animosity toward Wall Street and corporate America, they get into this traditional sort of Democrat rhetoric and tap into the populist anger out there. For Democrats to be successful they’ve got to create a sense of class warfare and an us versus them mindset. [...]

By: lamecherry

lamecherry — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:07:12 +0000

John Thune was correct in this being class warfare initiated by Democrats. There is a vast difference between Lee Atwater exposing the corruption of the left in allowing criminals to go free to prey on society to using blacks as ballot box stuffer, and now Democrats will be trying to enslave Mexicans by harnessing them to Obama debt.

Ronald Reagan looked at a third party and rejected it. The answer is not, exactly as Barack Obama intends, nor is patrician benefactors to create a fragmented Italian type mob rule where a President is elected by 14% of the vote and the government collapses.
The answer is to fight for both the Democrat and Republican parties.

There is a difference between us vs. them all through America. A minority in America called Patriots fathered America while the majority desired to remain subjects.
The Civil War was fought on state’s rights issues in which the Confederates fought to annul the Constitutional marriage which the Union stated was only in “death do us part” and they killed the South to prove it.
The Reagan Revolution was us vs. them in the form of Americans vs. internationalists.

It is these patricians who have infected the American body politic which have each party pushing key anti American laws. 9 11′s Patriot Act was written before the event by Gary Hart, but yet passed by Republicans.
Currently Paul Volker of the internationalists is as I have exposed goading Democrats under Obama to pass bank reform which will only create super banks in Europe and ruin American finance.

That is the problem in this in the same patrician elite are moving America off course, and class warfare is indeed the option of choice for these NeoProg Democrats. There is a vast difference though in Lee Atwater promoting an American agenda of responsible liberty against a “them” of financiers who funded Nazism in Germany and the Planned Parenthood of today.
One is a law of life and one is a law of death.

God bless

By: 2010: The Year of Class Warfare « The Western Experience

2010: The Year of Class Warfare « The Western Experience — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:46:09 +0000

[...] introduced an amendment to Senate legislation which would increase the country’s debt cap. Thune’s amendment would have ended the Troubled Asset Relief Program but was unfortunately defeated by 53 in favor 45 [...]

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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:31:15 +0000

By: griffo

griffo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:37:28 +0000

Republicans and some Democrats; Pro-life but anti-populist?

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:09:47 +0000

Great article! Thune hit the nail on the head.

By: hurtzallot

hurtzallot — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:00:58 +0000

I keep it real, the only thing worse than a “rag-head” is a CRAZY “rag-head.”

By: andrewrichard

andrewrichard — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:52:10 +0000

Obama’s interactions with Wall Street are not class warfare. The Tea Party is carrying out class warfare every time they trade on the idea that ordinary working Joe, who wants to keep his money, is being oppressed by Harvard intellectuals. That is class warfare. The kind which started World War II by establishing war-loving, Jew-hating ultra-nationalists as leaders throughout Europe.

By: thamesford

thamesford — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:48:34 +0000

Rebeka,
you’re very welcome and thankyou for your compliment on my “meds-free” rant. Glad you enjoyed the satire.

I will remember spaces for my next comment.

By: thamesford

thamesford — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:46:17 +0000

Rebekahuang,
completely agree. I have said before that the problem with too big to fail is that is is the politicization of capitalism where failure is too big a problem.